SARAH GAVLAK
In 2005, Sarah Gavlak opened the first contemporary art gallery in Palm Beach after recognizing a lack of local gallery presence there. She founded her eponymous gallery with the goal of championing female and LGTBQ artists. Over the last 14 years, she has staged highly conceptual and pioneering exhibitions, which include early solo presentations by Marilyn Minter, Betty Tompkins, Simone Leigh, and Wade Guyton. In 2014, she expanded her footprint and opened a 5,000 square foot space in Hollywood, and recently took on representation for artists Gisela Colon, Beverly Fishman, Candida Alvarez, and Vanessa German.
SARAH HAIMES
Sarah Haimes has built a career working with and supporting artists, nonprofit organizations, galleries, and collectors, focusing on project management, event production, fundraising, and sales. She previously held roles at Performa, Brooklyn Museum, and Aperture Foundation where she now serves as the President of Aperture Foundation’s Young Professionals Advisory Board. She is also on the Young Alumni Acquisitions Committee at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and a Board Member of Bowdoin College's Delta Sigma Delta Upsilon Fund, where she received a BA in Art History and Visual Arts.
Amy Phelan is considered one of the foremost collectors in the world and serves on numerous museum boards and councils including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, The Meadows School of Art and Aspen Art Museum, and chairs the highly anticipated Aspen Art Museum’s ArtCrush.
Amy Phelan
Burt Minkoff is a power broker with Douglas Elliman and is based in Palm Beach. He is an avid collector of vintage furniture and contemporary art and design.
Burt Minkoff
Isolde Brielmaier is a curator, scholar, writer, and cultural strategist collaborating with noted contemporary artists, art institutions, companies and individuals. Brielmaier was recently appointed Deputy Director of New Museum, serves as Curator-at-Large at ICP and is Professor of Critical Studies in Tisch School of the Art at New York University.
Isolde Brielmaier
Lindsay Taylor is an art advisor working in NYC, where she focuses on providing direct support to contemporary artists by helping individuals and companies curate art collections that they love. Lindsay spent over twelve years working with the non-profit Free Arts where she helped pioneer one of the most successful art auction fundraising models. During her tenure there she began working with some of the most influential contemporary artists, including Marilyn Minter, Richard Phillips, and Christopher Wool, among others. She also serves on the Collectors Committee for ArtCrush at the Aspen Art Museum.
Lindsay Taylor
Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen are the co-founders of Art Production Fund and Culture Corps. They are among the most influential leaders in the art industry and have been key collaborators at The New Wave Art Wknd with a presentation of public art by Jeppe Hein and others.
Ann G. Tenenbaum is a noted philanthropist who serves on the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem, DIA Beacon and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Ann G. Tenenbaum
Cheryl Brutvan is the Director of Curatorial Affairs and Glenn W. and Cornelia T. Bailey Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Cheryl Brutvan
Jane Holzer is a collector and powerhouse philanthropist who was Andy Warhol’s original “superstar” and who starred in several of the late artist’s films. Her extensive art collection is often shown at museums across the country.
Jane Holzer
Lisa and Richard Perry are collectors of Pop and Minimalist art focusing on the 1960s which serves as direct inspiration for Lisa’s namesake lifestyle brand. Passionate philanthropists the Perrys focus on Issues including education, women’s rights and racial injustice.
Lisa & Richard Perry
Beth Rudin DeWoody, art collector, and curator, resides between Los Angeles, New York, and Palm Beach. She is President of The Rudin Family Foundations and EVP of Rudin Management. Her Board affiliations include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, and others. She is an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum.
Beth Rudin Dewoody
Franklin Sirmans is an American art critic, editor, writer, curator and has been the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since October 2015. He has held curatorial positions at Dia Art Foundation, The Menil Collection and LACMA.
Franklin Sirmans
Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo is the President and Founder of the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc. She serves on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Taubman Museum of Art, and Roanoke College in Salem, VA. where she established the Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Center for Art in 2018. Additionally, she is a member of the Executive Board of the Meadows School of the Arts/SMU, and the Program Advisory Committee of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX.
Joanne Cassullo
Mike De Paola is a respected investor, collector and noted philanthropist who serves on the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Arts and Design, The Board of Directors of Art Production Fund and the Acquisitions Committee of The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mike de Paola
Barry Blumberg is an award winning producer and creative executive with over 30 years of experience and has served as President, Walt Disney Television Animation, Executive Vice President, Harvey Entertainment and most recently Chief Content Officer of Alloy Digital/Defy Media. He serves as an advisor to anumber of companies in the media sector, is an active member of UCLA’s Entertainment Council and a mentor to undergraduate students and is a frequent lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson Business School. He has been an avid collector of contemporary art for over 25 years and is a graduate of UCLA. Barry lives in Beverly Hills with his wife, Sarah Gavlak and his 16 year old son, Amos.
Barry Blumberg
Gopal Rajegowda has more than 15 years of experience managing all aspects of mixed-use real estate acquisition and development. He led the re-imagination of Rosemary Square, a neighborhood destination in the heart of Downtown West Palm Beach featuring retail, arts & culture, hospitality, and live-work-experience density with programmable public green spaces. Rosemary Square, New Wave Art Wknd's Lead Residency Partner and the location of our resident's studios, features more than 2,000 linear ft of murals by local and international artists, is home to Armory Arts Center Experience and two major public art installations by Jeppe Hein & Symmetry Labs.
Gopal Rajegowda
Keith Bloomfield is Founder and CEO of Forbes Family Trust, an ultra high-net worth wealth management business. In advising some of the world’s wealthiest families, collecting art and philanthropy has become of great interest and importance to an art asset class. He is a collector and avid supporter of philanthropic organizations.
Keith M. Bloomfield
Sanford Biggers is a Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist who works in film/video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. His work is an interplay of narrative, perspective and history that speaks to current social, political and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them.
Sanford Biggers
Yvonne Force Villareal &
Doreen Remen